(It should be noted that Charlie was a prolific contributor to the troll/thread in question and was told multiple times that he was grossly misrepresenting the context.)

I hear you saying that Aurini deserves punishment. I agree that his statements about the acceptability of violence are morally wrong and unlikely to achieve the outcomes he says he desires. Further, I'm extremely upset about his use of normative statements disguised as facts. Taken together, the posting of those types of statements makes the community look bad.

Nonetheless, the norm of the community is that each post stands on its own merits. Punishing Aurini in an unrelated post is like going through and down-voting everything Will Newsome says, regardless of individual merit. In other words, it is possible that your joke would be down-voted by people who completely agree with you about the total lack of value of Aurini's posts on domestic violence. (Btw - I'm not a down-voter).

It occurs to me while writing this post that some of our disagreement may be based on the fact that you think the joke is very funny, while it falls flat for me. (shrug). This whole issue isn't a big deal to me, just thought you'd find my perspective useful (since it differs from Blueberry's and CharlieSheen's).